Jakarta (VNA), Feb. 22 -- The Indonesian government has cut its target for relocating senior civil servants to the new capital city of Nusantara this year to 6,000 from the initial number of over 11,900.

The Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform stated that the transferred civil servants are scheduled to start working in the new capital city in October 2024.

The relocation of civil servants from Jakarta to Nusantara will proceed at a slower pace than originally planned because the government has nearly halved its 2024 target.

The government plans to relocate civil servants in three phases to the new capital city, Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Abdullah Azwar Anas said.

He added that in Nusantara , there are...